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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

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They drew the steel new-whetted, on the thrall they laid the hand;
For they said: “All hearts be fashioned as the heart of the King of the land.”
But the thrall was bewildered with anguish, and wept and bewailed him sore
For the loss of his life of labour, and the grief that long he bore.